{"id":5011,"date":"2026-05-13T15:10:18","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T19:10:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/oge.mit.edu\/msrp\/?post_type=profiles&#038;p=5011"},"modified":"2026-08-10T10:25:46","modified_gmt":"2026-08-10T14:25:46","slug":"amir-abdulgadir-2","status":"publish","type":"profiles","link":"https:\/\/oge.mit.edu\/msrp\/profiles\/amir-abdulgadir-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Amir Abdulgadir"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-nowrap is-layout-flex wp-container-core-group-is-layout-8f761849 wp-block-group-is-layout-flex\">\n<div style=\"height:0px;width:0px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer wp-container-content-9760934e\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Howard University<\/strong><br>Faculty Advisor: Prof. Joseph Formaggio<br>Research Supervisor: Jiatong Yang<br>Department: Physics<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"400\" height=\"599\" src=\"https:\/\/oge.mit.edu\/msrp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/05\/Abdulgadir-Amir.jpg\" alt=\"by Corban Swain\" class=\"wp-image-5567\" style=\"aspect-ratio:1;width:160px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/oge.mit.edu\/msrp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/05\/Abdulgadir-Amir.jpg 400w, https:\/\/oge.mit.edu\/msrp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/05\/Abdulgadir-Amir-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Biography<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Amir Abdulgadir is a junior at Howard University pursuing a double major in Physics<br>and Philosophy. As a Karsh STEM Scholar, he is passionate about answering fundamental<br>questions in astrophysics. The past two summers, he has been conducting research at the<br>Massachusetts Institute of Technology through the MSRP program. Beyond the classroom,<br>Amir enjoys exploring the intersection of science and philosophy, particularly questions<br>about the nature of the universe and scientific reasoning. He has also been involved in STEM<br>outreach and student leadership, experiences that have strengthened his commitment to making<br>science more accessible and collaborative. Amir plans to pursue a Ph.D. in astrophysics and<br>hopes to build a career advancing our understanding of the universe while mentoring the next<br>generation of scientists.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\"><br><strong>Modeling The Resonance Properties of Josephson Junction Array Microwave<br>Kinetic Inductance Detectors<\/strong><br>Amir Abdulgadir1, Jiatong Yang2, Doug Pinckney2 and Joseph Formaggio2<br>1Department of Physics and Astronomy, Howard University<br>2Department of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\"><br>Superconducting quantum processors are vulnerable to radiation. A single cosmic ray or<br>radioactive decay can deposit energy into the chip substrate, producing phonons that break<br>Cooper pairs across qubits. This can cause correlated errors that standard error correction<br>methods struggle to veto. Detecting these impacts as they happen would allow a processor to<br>veto the affected data, making these radiation sensors a tool for having more reliable quantum<br>computers. This project studies a detector designed for that role: Josephson Junction Array<br>Microwave Kinetic Inductance Detectors (JAMKIDs), a small superconducting circuit built<br>from an array of Josephson Junctions in a series, tiny nonlinear islands whose admittance is<br>sensitive to the density of quasiparticles. When radiation breaks Cooper pairs, the resulting<br>quasiparticles shift the array&#8217;s admittance and therefore the circuit&#8217;s resonant frequency. This<br>can be read out as a change in the microwave signal transmitted past the device. To predict<br>the resonance properties of a specific design, we build a three-dimensional electrostatic model<br>of the chip to simulate the capacitances between its conductors and compute the expected<br>microwave response. This offers a repeatable path from device geometry to predicted<br>performance, supporting sensors that could make quantum processors more robust against<br>radiation-induced errors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":5379,"template":"","profile_category":[25],"class_list":["post-5011","profiles","type-profiles","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","profile_category-2026-interns"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oge.mit.edu\/msrp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profiles\/5011","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oge.mit.edu\/msrp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profiles"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oge.mit.edu\/msrp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/profiles"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/oge.mit.edu\/msrp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profiles\/5011\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5670,"href":"https:\/\/oge.mit.edu\/msrp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profiles\/5011\/revisions\/5670"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oge.mit.edu\/msrp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5379"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oge.mit.edu\/msrp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"profile_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oge.mit.edu\/msrp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile_category?post=5011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}